How rare is the name Riya?

5,794 people in the United States have the first name Riya, about 1 in 52,128. It ranks #3,559 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 2 others.

first name

RIYA

#3,559

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,794
About
1 in 52,128
This common or more
82.6%
Who bears it

Of the 5,794 people named Riya, 86.3% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander, 5.3% as White and 3.8% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Riya peaked in 2005, when 291 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19902025
Peak year
2005
Births that year
291
In 2025*
137 ▼53%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 6,273 babies have been given the name since 1990. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Riya by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,841. The largest share of babies named Riya, 53.2%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1990s#6,662261
2000s#1,8412,341
2010s#1,8802,525
2020s#2,3051,146
Millennials 1981–961.2%
Generation Z 1997–1253.2%
2013 and later45.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Riya is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Riya has been most common in New Jersey (4.4×), California (2.1×), and Virginia (1.8×), and least common in Tennessee (0.32×).

5,107 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Riya

2 other first names also have 5,794 people.

#3,559 Cain · 5,794#3,559 Syeda · 5,794

Either side of Riya

#3,556 Trinh · 5,799#3,559 Cain · 5,794#3,559 Syeda · 5,794#3,562 Annalisa · 5,787

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Riya, most common first.

#3,844 Ria · 5,123#22,738 Riyah · 435

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